Big Brother 13

Dick Donato’s disclosure that he is HIV positive came with a accusation: that CBS forced him to leave the game. However, while praising “his bravery” for discussing his status on the VH1 reality show Couple’s Therapy, CBS told me he left voluntarily. Yesterday, Rachel Reilly told TMZ that she wished Dick would have stayed in the game and… continue reading

Dick Donato, aka “Evel Dick,” left Big Brother 13 because the show’s medical tests revealed that he was HIV positive. He will disclose that on tonight’s episode of VH1’s Couple’s Therapy , on which he’s appearing with his girlfriend, Stephanie Rogness-Fischer. Dick told People that when he was on BB13, producers did medical tests, and called him into the… continue reading

Big Brother 13 has been turned into a movie trailer starring its primary protagonist/antagonist, Brenchel, aka Rachel Reilly and Brendon Villegas. Watching this does violate a significant rule of Big Brother, which is my required end-of-season purge of all memories, which is the only thing that permits me to waste three more months the next… continue reading

Big Brother and Amazing Race couple Rachel Reilly and Brendon Villegas were finally married this weekend by fellow annoying Big Brother cast member Matt Hoffman. Though that might have been a sign that they were going to live happily ever after somewhere far, far away, they were, of course, filmed and their wedding will be… continue reading

Big Brother winner Rachel Reilly and her fiancee Brendon Villegas are among the cast members on The Amazing Race 20, which started taping this weekend. This will be the third season of a CBS reality show the couple has been on in less than 18 months. The source of this distressing news are a few… continue reading

Rachel Reilly and Brendon Villegas are getting married this weekend in Las Vegas, just a few days after she won Big Brother. Last night, Rachel told paparazzi, “We’re married getting this weekend and we’re getting married again on Real Station.” (No one seems to know what Real Station means. Is it something online? A place?… continue reading

Rachel Reilly won Big Brother 13, and her man, Brendon Vieglas, hugged and kissed her in a hail of confetti, and the producers got the conclusion to the story they concocted, supported, and nurtured to the best of their ability. While I think that anyone who wins a competiiton-based show deserves to win (I may… continue reading

Big Brother 13 concludes tonight after having been, for the most part, a disappointment of a season. While there was a series of awesome events, that followed weeks and weeks of boredom caused largely by the producers’ weak twist, bringing back three couples and forcing everyone to play as couples. Yet the show has had… continue reading

As I wrote on Thursday, I am not moved to vote for any of the Big Brother 13 houseguests to win $25,000 as the fan favorite. But I later realized that I am moved enough to irritate the Shelly haters that I’ll vote for her to win $25,000. In case you missed it, some sick… continue reading

Jordan Lloyd was voted out of Big Brother 13 last night by veto holder Porsche, who had 100 percent of the power this week, which because of the game’s structure, makes the HOH all but irrelevant. Fitting, then, that the HOH was Adam, whose game play has pretty much been irrelevant–but hey, it got him… continue reading

In an exit interview published at the end of August that I completely missed, Jeff Schroeder offered a defense of his Harry Potter-inspired homophobic rant, and it’s only fair to let him defend his comments that were widely condemned, even by people who’d defended Jeff’s previous bigoted comments. Jeff’s defense is confusing, but it appears… continue reading

So. Close. To. The. End. of Big Brother 13. I cannot wait to purge my brain of this season, especially because there’s no longer any ending I can foresee that would make the investment of time worth it. There are just two episodes to go, tonight’s and next Wednesday’s, which actually follows the 90-minute premiere… continue reading

I’ve been watching Big Brother with a bit more of a distance this week. Perhaps that’s because last week’s crazy live show was followed by insane behavior online, and nothing quite compares. Or perhaps it’s because my cat Chloe, reality blurred‘s de facto co-editor for the past 11+ years who made a few cameo appearances… continue reading

Some extraordinarily stupid and horrible people are threatening Big Brother 13 houseguest Shelly Moore and her family, at least in part because Shelly’s vote sent beloved Jeff Schroeder out of the game on Thursday. Saturday, executive producer Allison Grodner pleaded on Twitter, “No matter how much you dislike an HG, this is wrong! True BB… continue reading

Those of us who’ve slogged through Big Brother all summer long finally got payoff last night, as power shifted completely from the beginning to the end of the episode and the duos twist officially ended, as there are no pairs of returning houseguests left. It was remarkably dramatic for an episode that was full of… continue reading

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